The 100 Days: Claiming Back New Zealand: What Has Gone Wrong and How We Can Control Our Politicians by Amy Brooke
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
Publisher's description: This is an epic and engaging read on what has gone wrong with NZ's political and bureaucratic systems, and how the public can regain control over politicians. Brooke advocates the Swiss system of a 100 day public veto of controversial new laws - if the public can muster up enou ...Show more
The Barbizon - The New York hotel that set women free by Paulina Bren
$37.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good-very good
Built in 1927, New York's Barbizon Hotel was first intended as a home for the 'Modern Woman' seeking a career in the arts. It became the place to stay for ambitious, independent women, who were lured by the promise of fame and good fortune. Sylvia Plath fictionalized her time there in The Bell Jar, and ...Show more
The Battles of Monte Cassino: The Campaign and Its Controversies by Glyn Harper & John Tonkin-Covell
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
The Allied forces' actions in and around Monte Cassino in Italy remain some of the most controversial of the Second World War. Adolf Hitler described them as the battles that came closest to the bitter struggles on the Western Front. The name Cassino has become a touchstone for New Zealanders as a resul ...Show more
The Baubles of Office: The New Zealand General Election of 2005 by Stephen I. Levine
$50.00 NZD
Category: History
The Baubles of Office is the story of a cliff-hanger election, New ZealandâÃÂÃÂs closest yet under MMP. For nearly two weeks no one knew who had won, Labour or National. On election night it was Don Brash who was cheerful and elated, Helen Clark who seemed grim and shaken. New Zealand acquired a ...Show more
The Bay of Islands by Jack Lee
$30.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
First published as I have named it the Bay of Islands (a quote taken from the journal of James Cook written in 1769) in 1987, this landmark book is an authoritative chronicle of early European discovery and settlement of the area. As the focal point for much of the early trading and commercial industrie ...Show more
The Big Kahuna: Tax and Welfare : Turning Tax and Welfare in New Zealand on Its Head by Gareth Morgan and Susan Guthrie
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
One day, when he was contributing to the Tax and Welfare Working Group, economist Gareth Morgan made an off-the-cuff remark that the solution to all of New Zealand's tax and welfare woes lay in abolishing the present welfare system and radically overhauling the tax system. He called this idea 'the big k ...Show more
The Big Show: New Zealanders, D-Day and the War in Europe by Alison Parr
$40.00 NZD
Category: History
More than 10,000 New Zealand servicemen were on active duty with the RAF and the Royal Navy at the time of the D-Day landings, in June 1944. Until now, the role played by these men has been largely untold. The Big Show provides the first eye witness account of their experience at the heart of the Europe ...Show more
The Big Smoke: New Zealand Cities 1840-1920 by Ben Schrader
$60.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. The pursuit of city life is one of the most important untold stories of New Zealand. The Big Smoke is the first comprehensive history to tell this story, presenting a dynamic and highly illustrated account of city life from 1840 to 1920.It explores such questions as: what did cities look li ...Show more
The Bolger Years 1990-1997 by Margaret Clark (ed.)
$38.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Memories of the Bolger years by those who worked closely with and for him in the two sequential National Governments of which he was Prime Minister of New Zealand between 1990 and 1997. These accounts vividly portray the political dynamics and challenges of the government that succeeded Lange's Labour g ...Show more
The Bookmen's Dominion: Cultural Life in New Zealand 1920-1950 by Christopher Hilliard
$35.00 NZD
Category: History
The Bookmen's Dominion recovers an almost forgotten chapter in New Zealand's ongoing conversation about itself. It is often assumed that the study of New Zealand history and literature began relatively recently. But, as early as the 1920s, people with backgrounds in journalism, or library work, or profe ...Show more
The Broken Decade - Prosperity, Depression and Recovery in New Zealand, 1928-39 by Malcolm McKinnon
$50.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: near fine
The Depression of the 1930s was a defining period in New Zealand history. It had its own vocabulary swaggers and sugarbags, relief work and sustenance, the Queen Street riots and special constables that was all too familiar to those who lived through that tumultuous decade. But one generations reality i ...Show more
The Brothers York: An English Tragedy by Thomas Penn
$26.00 NZD
Category: History
SELECTED AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 BY THE GUARDIAN, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY TIMES, DAILY TELEGRAPH AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE 'A gripping, complex and sensational story, told with calm narrative command ... With insight and skill, Penn cuts through the thickets of history to find the heart of these heartless ...Show more